CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-13676

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Norton Remove & Reinstall is susceptible to a DLL preloading vulnerability, allowing an attacker to inject a malicious DLL. As a result, the application may execute unauthorized code in its context.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to the execution of malicious software within the application's context, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Norton Remove & Reinstall to version 4.4.0.58, which addresses this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Norton Remove & Reinstall can be susceptible to a DLL preloading vulnerability. These types of issues occur when an application looks to call a DLL for execution and an attacker provides a malicious DLL to use instead. Depending on how the application is configured, it will generally follow a specific search path to locate the DLL. The vulnerability can be exploited by a simple file write (or potentially an over-write) which results in a foreign DLL running under the context of the application. A Norton Remove & Reinstall update, version 4.4.0.58, has been released which addresses the aforementioned vulnerability.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS